{"id":389,"date":"2005-03-23T14:52:03","date_gmt":"2005-03-23T19:52:03","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=389"},"modified":"2005-03-23T14:55:07","modified_gmt":"2005-03-23T19:55:07","slug":"patrick-herron-and-kent-johnson-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/patrick-herron-and-kent-johnson-saturday\/","title":{"rendered":"Patrick Herron and Kent Johnson &#8211; Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.proximate.org\/bio.htm\">Carrboro Poet\/Gawd Patrick Herron<\/a> writes to alert us of his reading on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Who: Patrick Herron and Kent Johnson<br \/>\nWhen: Saturday March 26 @ 8 pm<br \/>\nWhere: Internationalist Books on Franklin Street, Chapel Hill<br \/>\nWhat: High-energy Poetry Reading<\/p>\n<p>More from Patrick:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nKent Johnson is the caretaker of perhaps the most controversial work of poetry in American history since Ginsberg&#8217;s _Howl_, and he has been my mentor and friend for the last six years.  You can read about <a href=\"http:\/\/bostonreview.net\/BR22.2\/BR22.2.html\">the Yasusada controversy extensively covered in the Boston Review in 1997<\/a> ( and<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/bostonreview.net\/BR22.3\/BR22.3.html\">http:\/\/bostonreview.net\/BR22.3\/BR22.3.html<\/a>).  Or, alternately, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.litvert.com\/KJ_Interview.html\">you can read about his life that includes working with the Sandinistas<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Read a fine example of his poetry, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.poetsagainstthewar.org\/displaypoem.asp?AuthorID=9052\">a play on the children&#8217;s book _Goodnight Moon_ which is arguably the most remarkable poem in the famed _Poets Against The War_ collection.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t come for me, come to hear Kent&#8211;he is truly phenomenal.  Poets this good don&#8217;t come around often in a lifetime.  This is not to be missed.<\/p>\n<p>Patrick<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carrboro Poet\/Gawd Patrick Herron writes to alert us of his reading on Saturday. Who: Patrick Herron and Kent Johnson When: Saturday March 26 @ 8 pm Where: Internationalist Books on Franklin Street, Chapel Hill What: High-energy Poetry Reading More from Patrick: Kent Johnson is the caretaker of perhaps the most controversial work of poetry in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni-and-other-friends","category-general","category-literature","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}